Tuesday, April 5, 2011

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month-- Crimes of Violence: Resources at K-State Women's Center, Counseling Center, Lafene Health, and Office of Student LIfe

Crime, selfishness, manipulation and violence are not decreasing. If you know someone who has been hurt, who is in pain, who was wounded days, months, or even years ago and is still dealing with it, let them know that they can drop the baggage and begin to live the life they want to live. If you are a normal healthy person, you WILL be wounded by betrayal and violence. But, like a plant that is hurt early on, when treated well and given what it needs, the later fruit can be sweeter and richer than that from plants which have never been stresssed.

Need a Laugh?

an interesting place

Beauty Horse

Oh Well

I Love You Snorkel Cat

Sweetest Vultures

Migrating Geese Are Here

The Flint Hills of Kansa

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Mystical Things

Aung San Suu Kyi Released

Nonviolence

艾未未 Love the Future 爱未来

The Whole World is Watching

The Spirit In Which It Is Given

Well, there is a lot of pain and sorrow, sacrifice, rage and insanity, anxiety and confusion. And that is just the first 5 minutes.Please accept these stories and posts in the spirit in which they are given- to edify, to lift, to lighten, to validate, to weep.Because also: love and sacrifice, wisdom and justice, clarity and gifts. Sometimes it takes more than 5 minutes.Today I added K's story to this blog. She was a little 18 year old when she was deceived into a night of betrayal and crime; trafficked; bought and sold. it is profoundly disturbing that her betrayer was another woman, a wolf in sheep's clothing. hang in there, everybody. Everything is OK in the end. If it isn't ok, it's not the end.